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The Crisis of Secularism in India
ISBN: 9780822338468 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence directed against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and the precarious situation of India's minority religious groups more generally; the existence of personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the rallying of a significant proportion of the diasporic Hindu community behind a resurgent...
While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis i...
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126,14 zł |
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Leadership in a Changing China: Leadership Change, Institution Building, and New Policy Orientations
ISBN: 9781403967343 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of leadership change in China, and its impact on institution building and foreign policy there.
Scholars from China, Singapore and the U.S. use the opportunity of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to explore the issue of l...
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187,83 zł |
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Vietnam's New Order: International Perspectives on the State and Reform in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781403975522 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on the Vietnamese state, society, and order, and Vietnam's international and regional environment.
This volume brings together distinguished international specialists on Vietnam and its reform process to explore the impact of reform in Vietnam on th...
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187,83 zł |
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China in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
ISBN: 9781403979759 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each emphasizing particular dimensions of politics, economics, political culture, and foreign policy. Issues examined include: social harmony and statecraft, media and political culture, and legality in foreign trade.
In this edited volume, leading scholars from US and China analyze the challenges and opportunities for China in the 21st century, each emphasizing par...
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187,83 zł |
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Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics
ISBN: 9781597400831 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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452,75 zł |
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Functional Constituencies - A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
ISBN: 9789622097902 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides detailed information on the relevant law of functional constituencies, their place in the Basic Law and with respect to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, their history, a full list of functional constituencies and the size and make-up of their electorates including how certain major companies may control large numbers of votes.
The book provides detailed information on the relevant law of functional constituencies, their place in the Basic Law and with respect to the Internat...
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159,39 zł |
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Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China
ISBN: 9780742540576 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-Maoist dictatorship, yet it does not seem to be moving significantly closer to democracy as it is understood in Western terms. After a period of self-imposed exclusion, Chinese society is in the process of a massive transformation in the name of economic progress and integration into the world economy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is seeking to maintain its rule over China indefinitely, creating yet another "new" China. Propaganda and...
Click here to hear Anne-Marie Brady's BBC World Service radio documentary titled "The Message from China" China's government is no longer a Stalinist-...
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557,87 zł |
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Political Change in Japan: Electoral Behavior, Party Realignment, and the Koizumi Reforms
ISBN: 9781931368148 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past twenty years, Japan has undergone dramatic changes. Electoral reform has altered the relationship between politicians and voters, and Japan is increasingly a two-party system. The popularity of former prime minister Koizumi Junichiro highlighted the salience of telegenic party leaders. Amid so many shifts, it remains unclear whether such changes will stand the test of time and where Japanese politics is heading. However, it is not too early to assess the permanence and the direction of political change in Japan. Each chapter in this wide-ranging volume addresses a key... In the past twenty years, Japan has undergone dramatic changes. Electoral reform has altered the relationship between politicians and voters, and J... |
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131,18 zł |
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East Timor: The Price of Liberty
ISBN: 9780230606418 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This booktraces the themes within the East Timorindependence movement and noteshow these have contibuted to post-independence issues, in particular the political tensions that almost saw East Timor collapse as a viable state in 2006.It concludes with an assessment of the 2007 elections."
This booktraces the themes within the East Timorindependence movement and noteshow these have contibuted to post-independence issues, in particular th...
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187,83 zł |
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The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
ISBN: 9780231176545 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oystein Tunsjo shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff. He arguea that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolarity that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century.
Oystein Tunsjo shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff. He arguea that the combined effects of the narrowing power ...
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329,41 zł |
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Norms, Interests, and Power in Japanese Foreign Policy
ISBN: 9781403984487 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, economic, and environmental policies in this volume examine how norms do or do not guide Japanese foreign policy and how they interact with interests and power.
This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case studies on Japan's security, eco...
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187,83 zł |
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Promoting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Perspectives from East Asia
ISBN: 9780333691212 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Attempts to integrate the Pacific regional economy accelerated sharply with the formation of the regionwide, official Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 1989. This book probes into the distinctive process of regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific by focusing on the roles and perspectives of China, Japan, and Southeast Asian states. Asian developments shaping the new post-hegemonic global political economy challenge traditional models in international relations, which is here challenged to take East Asia seriously.
Attempts to integrate the Pacific regional economy accelerated sharply with the formation of the regionwide, official Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperatio...
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563,58 zł |
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The Japanese Power Elite
ISBN: 9780333584637 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book attempts a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making. It presents the men occupying the core positions in Japan's ruling party, the central ministries, and in big business and its organizations. Elite career patterns, social origins, upbringing, university education, cognitive orientations and ways of life are reviewed, as are the interactions in the exclusive world of Japan's increasingly hereditary and bureaucratic class of power holders in conservative politics and big business.
This book attempts a coherent portrait of the heart of Japan's economic and political decision making. It presents the men occupying the core position...
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375,70 zł |
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Japanese Government Leadership and Management
ISBN: 9780333453056 / Angielski / Twarda / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The real leaders for the economic and social revolution which has taken place in Japan over the twenty years following the Second Wold War have been the Japanese government - not just Prime Ministers and Ministers of State, but the leadership of the ministries of the national government which, along with the leaders of the ruling Liberal Democratic party, constitute the three 'rings of power' which rule Japan. Professor Bingman uses his wide experience in the US government to identify and provide a superb distillation of facts and insights about how the Japanese government manages public...
The real leaders for the economic and social revolution which has taken place in Japan over the twenty years following the Second Wold War have been t...
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375,70 zł |
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Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong: Issues and Implications of the Basic Law
ISBN: 9780333494523 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of China's accommodation of Western constitutional values, in the light of the pending return of British Hong Kong to China. The Joint Declaration which governs the return guarantees a continuance of these values, and this study looks at the resulting tensions between East and West.
An examination of China's accommodation of Western constitutional values, in the light of the pending return of British Hong Kong to China. The Joint ...
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375,70 zł |
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China in International Society Since 1949: Alienation and Beyond
ISBN: 9780333607268 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a reinterpretation of China's international relations since 1949. Employing the notion and theory of international society, it offers a systematic examination of China's unique relationship with the society of states from its alienation in the 1950s and the 1960s to its political socialisation and economic integration in the 1980s and the 1990s. It explores how such a unique relationship has shaped and is likely to shape Chinese foreign policy. This book provides an entirely new perspective for our understanding of forces influencing Chinese foreign policy behaviour.
This book is a reinterpretation of China's international relations since 1949. Employing the notion and theory of international society, it offers a s...
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563,58 zł |
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ASEAN Into the 1990s
ISBN: 9780333497203 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ASEAN has its admirers and its critics. In its third decade, it is faced with having to do more than promote the interests of some of the region's most dynamic econommies. It has to do more for its six members than just preserve the peace between them. In the 1990s the old leaders of ASEAN will all be gone. What their successors do to make ASEAN cooperation work will determine how many of them join Singapore as a newly industrialised country. The agenda for the 1990s has Indochina near the top, but as well, how to cope with the economic prowess of Japan and the growing military strength of...
ASEAN has its admirers and its critics. In its third decade, it is faced with having to do more than promote the interests of some of the region's mos...
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375,70 zł |
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The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China
ISBN: 9780333673676 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and that this quasi-civil society that plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratisation in China. It makes a contribution to existing theories on democratic functions of civil society by applying, testing, revising and developing these theories in the context of Chinese democratization.
This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in Ch...
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751,44 zł |
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China and Vietnam
ISBN: 9780521853200 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam have been through a full range of relationships. Throughout all these fluctuations the one constant has been that China is always the larger power, and Vietnam the smaller. Yet China has rarely been able to dominate Vietnam, and the relationship is shaped by its asymmetry. The Sino-Vietnamese relationship provides the perfect ground for developing and exploring the effects of asymmetry on international relations. Womack develops his theory in conjunction with an original analysis of the interaction between China and Vietnam from...
In their three thousand years of interaction, China and Vietnam have been through a full range of relationships. Throughout all these fluctuations the...
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364,93 zł |
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The Government and Politics of India
ISBN: 9780333591888 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Government and Politics of India provides a clear and concise account of the contemporary Indian political system. It explains the historical legacies that have shaped the structures of Indian government and influenced the patterns of its politics. It describes the network of Indian institutions at federal and provincial level. It conveys a sense of where power is located, how it is used and the constraints on its exercise. Special attention is devoted to caste, religion and regionalism in Indian society and to the nature of democratic politics in relation to Third World...
The Government and Politics of India provides a clear and concise account of the contemporary Indian political system. It explains the histor...
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216,98 zł |